9 Jun 1994 08:19
Iain Sinclair: TRANSLATION: Kiseiju vol.3 ch.15-16
Kiseiju ^[$@4s@8=C^[(B
Volume 3, Chapters 15-16
Original story & art Copyright (C) 1991 Iwaaki Hitoshi/Kodansha
This English translation Copyright (C) 1994
Translation by Hiroshi Haga (heretic+@andrew.cmu.edu)
Proofreading by Iain Sinclair (axolotl@socs.uts.edu.au)
CHARACTERS:
Izumi Shinichi ^[$B@t^[(B ^[$B?70l^[(B
Izumi Kazuyuki ^[$B@t^[(B ^[$B0lG7^[(B
Izumi Nobuko ^[$B@t^[(B ^[$B?.;R^[(B
Miggy ^[$@%_%.%#!e>r^[(B
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Chapter 15: "Missing 30%"
-------------- p.4
Uda: About a year or so after the marriage, I think it was... my wife
left me. We didn't have a kid or anything, so it shocked me to
my core...
Uda: She didn't say anything, but... in the end, I think it was my
indecisive, softie personality she couldn't stand...
Uda: I hated myself, then... my very existence itself...
Uda: But I didn't even have the courage to die.
-------------- p.5
Uda: ...This place is special to me...I once came here when I was
a student, on a trip.
Uda: (The sea always looks beautiful from here...)
Uda: Wah! I-it's a snake! Go away, go!
-------------- p.6
Uda: Argh!
Uda: Aaaarrrrggghhh!
-------------- p.7
Uda: After that...
Mouth: I'll talk.
Mouth: Your right hand should still remember.
Mouth: We were creatures whose goal was to "take the brain'... So I made
my way to the brain.
-------------- p.8
Mouth: But something was wrong. The body was dying, after all the
effort I went to.
Mouth: (What's happening?)
Mouth: (It's not breathing!? Yes, this body is not breathing...it'll die!)
Mouth: (Forget about taking the brain, we'll both together if this keeps up!
First, I have to make this body breathe!)
Mouth: The body was in a state of apparent death, but since I didn't know
what else to do, I merged with the tissues around me. The priority
was to breathe!
-------------- p.10
Shinichi: Sheesh...
Miggy: I see, interesting.
Mouth: And so...
Uda's card: Let me speak.
Uda: Whew...
Mouth: If I give you back my upper half, I can't speak dynamically.
Uda: Shut up!
Uda: Anyways, I was really surprised when he said, "one of his
species is approaching", I wondered what kind of monster
would appear, but...
-------------- p.11
Uda: I'm relieved to see you... I mean, someone who's in the same
situation as me.
Uda: So, will you tell me your story? You and about your right hand?
Mouth: Tell me.
Shinichi: Yes...but before that, can we go somewhere else? I can't stray far
from this other place.
Makiko: Huh? He's not here...
Makiko: I guess I should just go home.
-------------- p.12
Uda: ...Cruel...it's too cruel.
Uda: So, you've been near the hospital all this time....
Shinichi: Ah, yes...
Uda: It must be really painful... I don't think I could stand it if
I was you.
Mouth: Why the fuck does he cry? I don't understand humans at all.
Miggy: I tend to agree.
-------------- p.13
Uda: Anyway, you have a well-spoken parasite.
Shinichi: Parasite?
Uda: Oh, it's an abbreviation for Parasitic Beast. I made it up since
it's easier to say.
Shinichi: I think it speaks this way because it learnt language by reading
textbooks.
Mouth: I learnt by watching TV mostly. This one likes videos, he
cries over movies.
Mouth: Crying is unique to humans, ain't it!
Uda: Why don't you shut up a bit!
Shinichi: I'm Shinichi Izumi. This is Miggy.
-------------- p.14
Uda: Nice to meet you! I'm Mamoru Uda.
Uda: This is...call him 'Parasite', it's good enough for him.
Mouth: Yeah, parasite is good enough.
Uda: I'm working at a hotel in the town nearby. I'll call you if I see
the enemy you told me about.
Shinichi: Huh....
Uda: Let me help you!
Uda: Because... this is the first time I've met a comrade like you...
Shinichi: Thank you very much... I'm in your debt.
(He sure cries a lot...)
Shinichi: (But...I'm glad! To find someone who is like me... who is my ally!)
-------------- p.15
Miggy: Shinichi... Shinichi!
Shinichi: What is it?
Miggy: It's important that we talk. I was going to tell you about this
before but, because I was more curious about Uda's body structure,
I forgot to tell you.
Miggy: Shinichi, remember about today. You jumped up 3 meters and also,
you ran like an olympic athelete. Do you know why?
Shinichi: Wha....what? What did you say?
Miggy: You didn't notice, I see.... Then, let me explain it to you
properly.
Miggy: First of all, I can split my body.
Shinichi: Wow, awesome!
Miggy: It takes practice to be able to do this.
-------------- p.16
Miggy: If I just divided into two, each can think and talk independently.
Shinichi: Okay.
Miggy: However, if I break up smaller and smaller,
Miggy: Each of them will have less and less intelligence; since they can't
think, they won't be able to merge back together, and they'll
quickly wither and die.
Shinichi: Hey, hey...
Miggy: Therefore, when splitting up, I do "volitional-unification"
beforehand. It's a sort of keyword.
Miggy: Such as 'Merge back into one'.
-------------- p.17
Shinichi: Oh...okay, I see...
Miggy: But...there is a place where even the smallest piece of me can
survive.
Miggy: A place where there is always fresh blood flowing. To be exact,
inside your body.
Shinichi: My...
Shinichi: You don't mean, Miggy!!
Miggy: I mean it.
-------------- p.18
Miggy: I, who is talking to you right now, is 70% of the original body.
Miggy: That time, I tried to return via the blood vessels after
stopping up the hole in your heart. I couldn't just go
outside by boring a hole again.
Miggy: After unifying my will to 'Return to the right hand', I entered
an artery by splitting into pieces... However!
Miggy: The strength of the recovered heart was stronger than I anticipated,
therefore a part of my body peices was carried away, rent into
smaller pieces and spread over the whole body!
-------------- p.20
Miggy: They're too small to make contact. So, for lack of an alternative,
I gathered a few cells from here and there of your body and
constructed the missing 30%.
Miggy: Before 'Miggy' was below your right elbow, but now it's a
little above the right elbow.
Shinichi: Oh, my god... Just when I was thinking that there were no more
surprises...
Miggy: If nothing has happened to your body, I was going to keep it secret.
Shinichi: Miggy.
Miggy: What is it?
-------------- p.21
Shinichi: You said, "over my whole body"....that means my brain, too?
Miggy: I don't know...but since my small pieces don't have any consciousness
of their own, I don't think they'll enter into capillary vessels.
Miggy: Are you nervous about something?
Shinichi: No...no big deal... I'm just worry too much...
Shinichi: (When I met father, so many thoughts and feelings came up to my
heart that I thought my chest would burst, but there were no
tears... When I was talking to Mr. Uda, I didn't cry then, either.
Even though Mr. Uda was so excited that he was crying over having
met a comrade... but me...)
Mouth: Crying is unique to humans, ain't it!
-------------- p.22
[and a few days have passed.]
Shinichi: A hole...in my chest...
-------------- p.23
Shinichi: Maki.
Makiko: Oh, you knew I was here.
Shinichi: Do I look like a normal human?
-------------- p.24
Makiko: Huh? Y-yes, you look normal. Why do you ask?
Makiko: Oh, geez! What's wrong with you! You just think about yourself
and that's all!
Makiko: You don't tell me anything!
Shinichi: Huh?
Makiko: In the ferry and now! You have an awful look on your face
sometimes. As if...
Makiko: As if you're crying without shedding tears!
Makiko: It..it makes me worried about you...
-------------- p.25
Shinichi: I-I'm sorry.
Makiko: Oh, god, I don't care anymore!
Makiko's mom: Ah, just in time.
Makiko's mom: A call from Mr. Uda to you, Mr. Izumi.
Shinichi: Really?!
Shinichi: Hello?
-------------- p.26
Uda: It's here. One parasite. I couldn't tell whether it's the one or
not,
Uda: But I think that's the one!
Shinichi: So...is it coming straight towards here?
Uda: No. It sensed my presence, and so it's coming toward me.
Until you get here, I'll try to prevent it from leaving.
Shinichi: Mr. Uda!! You haven't met them before!?
Uda: Well...you're the first other parasite I've seen.
-------------- p.27
Shinichi: They'll attack you without warning if they find out that you've
still got a human brain!
Uda: What!?
Mouth: About 100 meters away.
Shinichi: Quickly! You must get as far away from it as you can, right now!
Uda: O-okay! There is a cape between the boundary of your town and mine!
I'll go via that to meet you, it's a shortcut!
Shinichi: Okay! I'll be there!
Uda: Oh, god, I'm in trouble!
-------------- p.28
grandpa: Hmmm, what's going on? A raid?
Shinichi: That's the cape!
-------------- p.29
Miggy: Shinichi!
Miggy: I can sense one! Can't sense the other.
Shinichi: I see! Must be Mr. Uda's.
Shinichi: ha ha
Miggy: Shinichi!
Shinichi: Found it? The other one!
Miggy: No, I'm sleepy!
Shinichi: What!?
-------------- p.30
Shinichi: No kidding!? Don't...
Miggy: Shinichi, go back!
Shinichi: I can't do something like that! Are you telling me to stand by and
do nothing while Mr. Uda suffers?
Miggy: Ah...I can't stay awake any longer...
Shinichi: Miggy!
Miggy: At least... I'll sleep in the solidified shape of a weapon....
-------------- p.31
Miggy: But, please run away if you can... think about your survival first...
Shinichi: It'll be fine if Mr. Uda, 'Parasite' and I cooperate!
Shinichi: (We can win...for sure!)
-------------- p.32
Uda: *panting*
Mouth: Yo, don't stop!
Uda: B-but...
Mouth: It's running up the hill behind us.
Uda: What!?
Mouth: Even though it's a middle-age woman's body, the head, which controls
it, is different! It seems it can draw out a body's maximum
potential.
Mouth: I don't think we stand a chance agsinst it, let's get outa here!
Uda: I can't do that! Shinichi'll come soon. We'll beat it together!
Mouth: Then take this side road. If Shinichi comes, we can pull off a
pincer maneuver on it.
-------------- p.33
Shinichi: *panting*
Shinichi: Damn, I can't locate its position at all... Is it still further?
Shinichi: This is just like a normal sword...
Uda: Hey, we can't go any further. Maybe we made a mistake?
Mouth: I just thought it might be better to try to do a pincer maneuver
than just getting caught up by it.
-------------- p.34
Parasite: I see. That's why you tried to run away from me. Two of them in
such a short time, ones whose brains are still alive.
-------------- p.35
Parasite: But to me, you're just hindrances... I'll kill you now!
Uda: Wah!
Mouth: I see...this is what we should've been originally, the finished
product!
-------------- p.36-37
*noises & sounds of battle*
Uda: (I-I can't breathe!)
-------------- p.38
Shinichi: (Strange... we should have met by now...)
*sounds of battle*
Shinichi: Shit, I went past them!
Uda: (Oh, no, I'm gonna get killed!)
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Chapter 16: "The journey's end"
-------------- p.40
Shinichi: (Definitely, I heard it from behind!)
Shinichi: (Not a metallic sound, a sound I heard too many times when
I fought 'A'!)
Shinichi: (He took a side road?)
-------------- p.41
Parasite: You're no match for me. Compared to my unified body,
Parasite: The movement of a human, your host, is too slow!
-------------- p.42
Parasite: The fight is decided! I want to save time, so resign yourself
to your death!
Mouth: (This man's movement sure is a bit too slow...)
Mouth: (And, his breathing is so uneven, I'm getting tired, too.)
Mouth: (But then, somehow, this woman's attack is monotonous...
Yes...as if she's aiming at one spot of my host's body only...)
-------------- p.44
Parasite: At last, it's settled.
Parasite: The sure way to kill the one like you, who has a parasite body part
that can't be easily pinpointed, is to destroy its heart.
Mouth: (As I thought...)
-------------- p.45
Parasite: (Another of my species is coming...?)
Parasite: (In this place where there aren't many humans, very peculiar.)
Parasite: (Strange... The response is too weak. As if it's sleeping, but
it's coming toward me.)
-------------- p.46
Parasite: How come!? I killed you!
-------------- p.47
Parasite: Did I miss the target!? No...that can't be it!
Parasite: Alive even I pierced your heart. I should've have cut off
your neck!
Shinichi: So cruel...mimicking the voice as well...
-------------- p.48
Shinichi: I'll kill you as fast as I can!
[It's a suicidal action to close one's eyes before an enemy who is ready to
attack, but Shinichi involuntarily shut his eyes at the moment when the shape,
which he knew so well, disintegrated before his eyes.]
-------------- p.49
[The enemy didn't move to attack immediately. The wonder of its opponent,
whose heart was pierced through by it, standing in front of him -- it took
precaution against Shinichi's unknown ability.]
Shinichi: Haha... That's right... You should look like that always...
Monster should look like a monster!
Shinichi: (Where is Mr. Uda!?)
Parasite: (As I thought, the right hand's response is very weak. As if it's
under hibernation. If that's so, what can a human do against me.)
-------------- p.50
Parasite: (Dodged!?)
Parasite: (No way! Humans don't have that kind of agility...)
-------------- p.51
Parasite: (Impossible!)
Shinichi: (I can see!)
Shinichi: (I can see its movement!)
Shinichi: (I couldn't see anything at all in the battle with 'A'...)
Shinichi: (It was moving, changing its shape at a great speed.)
-------------- p.52
Parasite: (Incredible!)
-------------- p.53
Shinichi: Mr. Uda!
Shinichi: (How dare you! He was the only one who can share the same feeling!!)
Shinichi: Damn you!!
-------------- p.54
Parasite: Argh!
Parasite: (How come! How can he move so fast!)
-------------- p.55
Shinichi: (Ah!)
Shinichi: (The neck...aim at its neck or above!)
-------------- p.56
Shinichi: (Kill it! Fast! As fast as possible!)
Shinichi: (Kill!)
Parasite: Gah!
-------------- p.57
Parasite: (He is...!)
Parasite: (As if he's not human!)
-------------- p.58
Shinichi: (Mother!)
Shinichi: (Mother, right now!)
Shinichi: (I'll cut this monster...)
-------------- p.59
Shinichi: (...off you right now!)
-------------- p.63
Shinichi: Argh!
Parasite: Die!
-------------- p.66
Shinichi: Mr. Uda!!
Uda: I-it's... of course not your mother anymore. But...
Uda: I think you shouldn't kill it.
-------------- p.67
Parasite: Why... why even you are still alive....
Mouth: I read your attack pattern. You aimed right at the heart.
Mouth: I can reach inside his chest, you know. I moved the heart and other
important organs to make an opening just before your feeler stroke.
-------------- p.68
Shinichi: Mother....
Shinichi: (It's over...)
-------------- p.69
Shinichi: (Finally, it's over....)
-------------- p.70
Shinichi: Thank you for everything.
Mom: You're going to the hospital to pick up your father now?
Shinichi: Yes.
Grandpa: Send my regards to your boss, bro.
Mom: Hey, dad!
Shinichi: Good-bye.
Makiko: I'll walk with you to there.
Mom: Makiko!
Makiko: Just to over there!
-------------- p.71
Shinichi: Didn't I inconvenience you for behaving strange?
Makiko: Did you take care of you business?
Shinichi: Yes, I did...
-------------- p.72
Makiko: Next time, come for sightseeing.
Shinichi: No...I don't think I'll ever come here again...
Makiko: No!
Makiko: No...please come again?
Shinichi: Alright.
Makiko: Good-bye.
-------------- p.73
[On the way home, the father took his son to a place. It was a cliff which
seemed to be nothing out of ordinary, but the father didn't tell him what
that place was.]
[For a while, they were just there silently...]
Shinichi: Mr. Uda, thank you for your help.
Uda: I thank you, too.
-------------- p.74
Uda: Okay, take care! But let's keep in touch.
Uda: Oh...I told you before, but I think you should keep this secret
from your father. Although it might be painful.
Miggy: I think so, too.
Miggy: This is not only for my sake, it's for your father's, too.
Shinichi: I know.
Shinichi: (If father finds out all the truth, the general public won't
remain silent. For the mankind...)
Shinichi: (But, if that happens, father'll be the monsters' target
before people believe it.)
Shinichi: (I have a monster detector, so it's okay, but father doesn't...)
-------------- p.75
Shinichi: (I don't care being a coward! I don't want my father to die, too!)
Shinichi: (But, in the near future... Somehow, I think the whole world will
find out about the parasites even if Mr. Uda and I keep quiet...
When that times comes, then...)
Kazuyuki: Shinichi.
Kazuyuki: I wish I could tell you truthfully...but I don't know how to say it...
Kazuyuki: I just want you to believe this.
-------------- p.76
Kazuyuki: Your mother loved....no, I mean, still loves you. And I love
you and your mother.
Shinichi: Okay...
Shinichi: Father, I have one question.
Shinichi: About the dream...
Kazuyuki: Yes?
Shinichi: I mean...in that nightmare you saw, did mother...
Shinichi: I mean...
-------------- p.77
Shinichi: Did she suffer or anything like that..?
Kazuyuki: No. It all happened in a blur... I don't think so.
Shinichi: I see...
Kazuyuki: Shinichi?